Please do not send HTML messages or top-post when using mailing lists. It makes it more difficult to reply while keeping context. On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 09:49:27AM -0700, admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On October 24, 2021 2:38 PM, Peter Crowther wrote: > > Do you want this on CentOS 8, Ubuntu 20.04, or something else? > > The help we can give you will vary quite considerably depending > > on the distro you use; and, as you point out, RedHat-derived and > > Debian-derived distributions are very different. > > > For CentOS, do you have the advanced virtualization repo enabled? Using CentOS Stream 8 with Advanced Virtualization, as Peter suggested, is a good way to get access to relatively fresh packages. Right now, that would net you libvirt 7.6.0 and QEMU 6.0.0, which are just a few months old and should allow you to set up virtiofs. > I would prefer the ubuntu packages. I am most familiar with that > distro. I can make centos8 work if I have to but I prefer not. If at all possible, I recommend using binary packages instead of building libvirt from scratch. It just makes everything so much easier. If you really want to build from source, have a look at the Dockerfiles in ci/containers: there's one for Ubuntu 20.04, and it includes the full list of packages you need to install in order to satisfy all build dependencies. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
